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Tag Archives: homoousion
Thinking Trinity: The Radical Homoousion
When in A.D. 325 the bishops of the Council of Nicaea declared (1) that Jesus Christ is begotten “from the substance of the Father” and (2) that he is “of one substance” (homoousios) with the Father, they probably did not … Continue reading
Posted in Athanasius, Holy Trinity
Tagged Arius, Athanasius, Christology, God, Holy Trinity, homoousion, Jesus Christ, Nicaea
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Trinity, Logic, and the Transcendence of Transcendence
Philosopher Dale Tuggy believes he has a decisive proof against the coherency of the catholic doctrine of the Trinity. It goes like this: God is a personal being, i.e., a self. By “self” is understood a being who is conscious, … Continue reading
Thinking Trinity: No God Behind the Back of Jesus
What if the Nicene assertion of Christ’s Jesus’ consubstantial unity with the Father is not true? In the previous article I focused on the story of the paralytic and Christ’s word of forgiveness and argued that if Christ is not … Continue reading
Posted in Athanasius, Holy Trinity, T. F. Torrance
Tagged Arianism, Arius, divinity of Christ, George Dragas, Holy Trinity, homoousion, Nicaea, Nicene Creed, Thomas Torrance
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Thinking Trinity: What if Jesus ain’t homoousios with the Father?
What would happen to the gospel if the Nicene confession of the consubstantiality of the Father and the Son were not true? Would there even be a gospel? Consider the story of Jesus and the paralytic: And when he returned to … Continue reading
Posted in Holy Trinity, T. F. Torrance
Tagged divinity of Christ, forgiveness of sins, homoousion, Jesus, Nicaea, paralytic, Thomas Torrance
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Thinking Trinity: The Jigsaw Puzzle of the Homoousion
Once a believer has fully grasped the decisive significance of homoousion, there can be no returning to a more “biblical” or more “historical” Jesus; for the only Jesus that was and is is the incarnate Son eternally begotten from the … Continue reading
Posted in Holy Trinity, T. F. Torrance
Tagged divinity of Christ, Doctrine of the Trinity, Holy Trinity, homoousion, Nicaea, Nicene Creed, Thomas Torrance
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Thinking Trinity: Homoousion as Dogma
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by … Continue reading
Posted in Holy Trinity, T. F. Torrance
Tagged divinity of Christ, dogma, homoousion, homoousios, Jesus Christ, Nicaea, Nicene Creed
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Tuggy, Christ, and the Gospel of Mark (Part 2)
“My second question is, if meaning-making of the recorded texts is the actual intended reason for their recording, would reading the texts with such an interpretive frame bring one to the Trinity doctrine by default? Bishop John Shelby Spong, Marcus … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Holy Trinity, Theology
Tagged Christology, Dale Tuggy, divinity of Christ, homoousion, Jesus, Nicaea, Thomas Torrance
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